Multicolorous woven fabric.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

GARY, A FIRM.

JAN SZOZEPANIK, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AssicNon TO SOGIETE DES INVENTIONS JAN SZOZEPANIK a cm, or VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUN- JMULTICOLOROUS WOVEN FABRIC.

, Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1906.

Application filed October 11, 1901. Serial No. 78,381.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that I, JAN SZOZEPANIK, a subect of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, re-

siding at Vienna, in the Province of Lower Austria, in the Empire of Austria-Hungary,

the system of threads of which running in one direction is formed by successive groups of threads which possess the colors corre-.

sponding to the three primary colors-blue, "green, and redwhereas the other system of threads which is crossing the said thread system perpendicularly is formed by white threads or, if desired, by white and black threads. In this manner, owing to the total effect of the colored threads corresponding to the three primary colors and with the aid of The woven fabric is thus composed of groups the white or of the combination of white and black threads intended for producing the gradations of tints, the pattern of the fabric appears to the eye in the natural colors and tints of the original, similarly .to 'a colored photograph produced after the known method of Jolly, or of Mc'Donough, described in his United States Patent No. 611,457.

arranged in juxtaposition and composed each of three colored threads corresponding to the three rimary colors and of white or of white and black threads crossing the firstnamed grou s. For the color effect which is to be obtained it is quite indifferent whether the system of colored threads corresponding to the three primary colors will constitute the warp of the fabric or the weft of the same. It is, however, advantageous to arrange this system of colored threads as the warp of the fabricthat is to say, to use the colored threads for the warp and to roduce the gradation of tints by a white we t because the warp-threads can be arranged more densely and for this reason a better total effect of the threethreads which correspond in color tothe three primary colors described manner would, however, possess is advisable to use in combination with the said three colors a fourth colorfor instance, blackwhich will be a weft-thread when the warp-threads are of the primary colors and a warp-thread when the weft-threads are of the primary colors, as the case may be. If

now the primary colors are given by the warp, the first white weft-thread will shade all light-colored partsof the fabric, while the following black weft-thread will shade all dark places of the fabric. The weft is therefore alternately white and black. The pmmary colors may also be expressed in the fabric conjointly both by the warp and by the weft, this'arrangement being of advan- 7o tage, for instance, in the case of two-ply fabrics.

I claim 1. A colored fabric in Which the threads in one direction are of the. primary colors only and transversewhite, to 'produce designs simulating natural colors, substantially asdescribed.

2. A colored fabric in which the threads in one direction are of primary colors only, to-

gether with transverse white threads to produce high light and black threads to produce shadows, substantially as described.

. 3. A colored fabric in which the warpthreads are arranged insets of three, each thread of a set being of a different primary color, and white weft-threads to produce designs simulating natural colors.

4. A colored fabric in which the Warp threads are arranged in sets of three, each thread of a set being of a different primary color, and weft-threads of white to produce h1 h lights and black to produce shadows, sufstantially as described.

5. A multicolored fabric having continu- 5 ous threads in one direction of primary colors and transverse threads, the primary-colored threads being arranged above the transverse thread to place the colors in juxta osition to produce the designs in colors simu ating nat- 1 oo ural color effects, including the mixed colors.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signedmy name in pres ence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JAN SZCZEPANIK. Witnesses: 5 Josar RfiBAsoH, F f

ALVESTO S. Hoeun.

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